Lowering the bar to the middle or lower chest would involve the lower pectorals more. Also, the closer your elbows are to your ribs the more your front delts will be involved.

You can also try close-grip bench presses for front delts and triceps. Don't go super narrow on these. This puts a lot of stress on the wrists and elbows. I like to use a grip where my hands are just barely wider than my ribcage, and lower the bar to my pecs meet my abdominals.

6 sets is not over training
for size 8-12 is best
so you only have the equip listed?
that sucks

you can get a full body workout with that though
try this for chest
pick a weight something you can do 15 reps with on your first set-the 15th should be failure
do 10 sets 10 reps each set
progressively use more weight
in the following workouts
do you have a partner?
you can do incline pushups with a weight on your back to target the upper chest as well

can you get to a gym?
the 40-70 a month investment will pay off with the equip you have access to!!!

what do u mean 8-12 sets or reps for size i read in a mens health magazine that 1 set is just as good as 3 sets anymore will u can do it if u want too and 10 sets of 10 reps r u serious again waste of time and if u can do 15 reps of something u mind as well just add more weight and get less reps in

The last poster was referring to this
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/luis13.htmAnd he is serious. This has been around for some time, but Poliquin popularized it in the mid 90's. Read it carefully though. It's not all 10X10 with a 60% weight. It has four phases to it, you start out light with high volume, thengo for phase II with heavier weight, about 2 working sets. Back to 10 sets, but this time fewer reps and a bit heavier weight, and finish off low volume, high intensity. I have tried it, and while I did get a little size, I found that I did get major srength gains during the lower volume, higher intensity phases, and leaned out quite a bit during the high volume phases.
Tim

yes i am serious that is why i have gained lbs of muscle continuisly since iwas 18
mens health is for preventing prostate cancer not putting on muscle!!!!
you are right 15 reps is pointless, but do that weight 10 times and i bet that first set of 15 reps doesnt go up so easy!!
try it let us know
"what do u mean 8-12 sets or reps for size i read in a mens health magazine"
1 set is just getting a warmup

German volume training works great. I like to do a modified version though. Instead of doing 10 sets of flat bench for chest, I do 5 flat and 5 incline for a litte more ballance. You can gain some size. The thing is like any training protocol it doesn't work forever. The other thing I do a lot is 3 or 4 sets of 6 to 8 reps to failure per part, lifting around 90%. I do another program that is real low volume. You do 1 working set to failure at 90% for each part, but you make it a drop set, even a double or triple drop sometimes. When I do that I frequently have a spotter help me get 2 forced reps with real slow negatives.

I really don't see any value in doing more then 10 sets. If you are doing it right and aren't on steroids 10 sets at 65 to 70% is plenty. If you can get all your reps on every set and your rest is under 2 minutes, you need to up the weight.

Modifications are great. Nothing is written in stone. T-Mag came up with a version of GVT that used 3 exercises instead of the one for the 10 sets. Never tried it, but it sounded pretty good. I modified day 3 when I first tried Poliquin's version of GVT. I just can't see devoting a whole session to arms. It's not in me. So what I did was to examine everything. The first two sessions covered Horizontal push-pull-verticlr pull-squat, core, and the posterior chain and vertical push looked to be lacking, so I did an EDT version of clean and push press for day 3, and finished it off with some P bar dips and hammer curls. Point being, set goals, and design it around what you want to do with it.
Tim

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